1. My back was still hurting when I woke up.
2. My back was hurting when I washed the dishes.
3. I miss Germany.
4. France celebrates its national day with a military parade. And fireworks and concerts and speeches. But mostly a military parade.
5. My back hurt.
6. Someone pushed me in the corridors of the metro even though I was limping my way through, feeling sorry for myself.
7. Someone wrote on Twitter that Germans don't understand sarcasm. I miss my sarcastic German friends and their dry humour.
8. I remembered that one time when my friend told me he was going to "leave science and become a lab administrator, or technician", and I enthusiastically told him this was great, that this wasn't leaving science at all, and that it made me happy to know he knew what he wanted to do after his PhD, and he told me I was the first person not to berate him for not wanting to become a professor.
9. My back hurt and no one gave a shit.
10. The war between Israel and Palestine.
11. I still miss Tel Aviv even though I'm glad not to be there now.
12. I can't configure Facebook to stop telling me about people's birthdays. It's written right here in the upper right corner, Facebook! I don't need an extra notification and I especially don't need to see all the meaningless messages other people left them. 12 people took 3.5 seconds each to type in "Happy Birthday!!" and 23 others only used one exclamation mark? Fascinating.
13. I need Facebook like a fish needs a bicycle but I don't know how else to keep up with quite a few people I enjoy keeping up with.
14. I'm tired and my. back. hurts.

Chronic (back) pain is emotionally exhausting, y'all.